Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Philip Roth's latest, much lauded The Plot Against America, brilliantly imagines what a Jewish family in New Jersey would have faced if Charles Lindbergh, anti-Semitic and anti-interventionist, had won the presidential election of 1940. Engaging, provocative, relevant and effectively read by Ron Silver.

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

al attraction I've been reading and listening to Philip Roth for more than 30 years and have always found him brilliant, challenging, disturbing, funny and, sometimes, offensive. His new novel, The Dying Animal, read by Arliss Howard with impeccable timing in a voice that seems to belong, unequivocally, to its hero-anti-hero-narrator David Kepesh, is all of those things. Kepesh, who has...